Culturally Confused

Back when my family first moved to Texas, we had to learn about Tex-Mex.  See, we came from the East Coast, and the only exposure we had ...

I'm not sure how it happened, but somehow it was decided that for Mother's Day, children should cook their mother breakfast and se...

Even though I spent a couple of days in Turkey back in 2001, the food that I ate there must not have been memorable, because I can't r...

At first I thought that Giada was just a pretty face.  Someone cute to stick on Food Network so that people would tune in.  Enough of tho...

I always thought cod was best served with a crispy brown crust on a sandwich.  Not necessarily so.  It's equally, possibly more, deli...

I think this is one of my mom's favorite cakes.  And after all the work it takes, it certainly should be.  This is a chocolate bomb o...

I feel like an old woman talking about how I walked to school in six feet of snow (barefoot! uphill! both ways!) when I say this, but I f...

My mother decided that it was about time for her to host a happy hour at our house, especially since all of her friends have already done ...

It's Valentine's Day Singles' Awareness Day.  A day when I wish I could just crawl under the covers and wait for midnight....

I took a cooking class several years ago with Andrew Schloss when this cookbook first came out.  It was about the same time that Sandra L...